Got me a "screamin eagle" today

[nebstater]

Was sitting around the house today and wasn't doing much, so I decided to get out for a couple of hours, as "old mother nature" isn't going to allow it for much longer. Decided to go check out a baseball field next to a major highway near home, and wasn't really expecting to find much. Was basicly only clad shooting anyway.

Arrived at the field, and after about five minutes, I got my first signal. Turned out to be a 1945 wheatie. A pleasant surprise indeed. It took about 20 minutes to do the area behind the backstop, and only found a little clad, so went out to the outfield.

Man do I like my "Big Foot" coil in large open areas. The only draw back that I have with the coil is the fact that a silver coin really doesn't register as a silver coin. A dime registers as a dime, same with a quarter. I can't even tell if there is a higher pitch on silver or clad. But, that's a minor problem.

Was going along great when all of a sudden the detector starts screaming at me. It kept jumping between a penny and a half, and kept telling me that it was at about 6 inches. I just knew that it was probably silver, so I cut an extra large plug the depth of my Lesche knife and pulled out the plug. Laying in the dirt looking up at me was this large silver coin. I thought that I had finally found another walking liberty. Cleaned some of the dirt off of it, and was surprised to see a eagle looking back at me.

Turns out, what I had found was a German 5 Deutsche Mark coin. Checked the old internet, and found that it was, indeed, a silver coin. Turned out to be an excellent day.

Hope everyone else had a good day too. Keep swinging.

[The Beep Goes On]

Very nice!

[Rusted_Iron]

Cool finds, congrats on the silver coin

[Nana40]

Way to go, Neb! That's a terrific silver find!!

Nana

[kilmer]

That coin pose is unreal. I bet you were scratching your head over that one when you saw it. I had something like that happen a few years ago. I got a deep 50 cent signal and dug and dug to about 9 inches and saw the edge of a coin. I knew it was a half and probably older than a Walker. Pulled it out and noticed the eagle had a snake in his talons. I was really wondering till I flipped it over and realized it was from Mexico. It was still pretty neat and fairly old. Thanks for posting.

HH, Don

[nebstater]

Way to go, Neb! That's a terrific silver find!!

Nana

Thanks for the kind words.

[nebstater]

That coin pose is unreal. I bet you were scratching your head over that one when you saw it. I had something like that happen a few years ago. I got a deep 50 cent signal and dug and dug to about 9 inches and saw the edge of a coin. I knew it was a half and probably older than a Walker. Pulled it out and noticed the eagle had a snake in his talons. I was really wondering till I flipped it over and realized it was from Mexico. It was still pretty neat and fairly old. Thanks for posting.

HH, Don

Been there and done that. One of the first foreign coins that I dug was a 50 Centavos coin from Mexico. Like yours, it had that eagle with the snake in its' mouth. Large like a half, only made out of copper instead of silver. Still, and interesting dig. Thanks for the comments.

[nebstater]

Very nice!

Thanks!

[nebstater]

Cool finds, congrats on the silver coin

Much appreciated. Thanks.

[Pull_tab_mike]

hey dude thats one coool find, you had fun... i used to live in omaha for about 4 years...

[nebstater]

hey dude thats one coool find, you had fun... i used to live in omaha for about 4 years...

Thanks, I used to live in Omaha once too. Was there for about 7 years. It's grown so much now, that you wouldn't recognise the place anymore..

[allen]

good going on that silver
and my birthyear as well !!

[nebstater]

good going on that silver
and my birthyear as well !!

Thanks for the kind words. It's you young wipper snappers that keep us old timers on our toes.